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EBOOK Lincoln in American Memory
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199880027
EAN: 5BAF4DB7EB
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Stron: 496
Data wydania: 1994
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In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating        history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to        the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this        wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American        politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners,        Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in the idealization of the late        President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle. Peterson also looks        at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from        exultation at the end of slavery to the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty        and segregation. Through it all, Peterson traces five principle images of Lincoln:        the savior of the Union, the Great Emancipator, man of the people, first American,        and self-made man. In identifying these archetypes, he tells us much not only of        Lincoln but of our own identity as a people. More than thirty years ago, Peterson        won the prestigious Bancroft Prize for The Jefferson Image in the American Mind.          This absorbing book follows in the footsteps of that landmark work, leading us on a        revealing tour through our changing image of our greatest president--and our        changing image of ourselves.

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